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UNITE STATES PATENT OFFICE.

PIERRE GUTTON, OF PARIS, FRANCE, ASSIGNOR TO THE sooIETE DE DESSINS INDUsTRIELs, on sAME PLAoE.

PROCESS OF PRODUCING WEAVlNG-DIAGRAMS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N0.'666,518, dated January 22, 1901.

Application filed April 18, 1900. Serial No. 13,353. (No specimens.)

T0 CZIZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, PIERRE GUTTON, aciti- Zen of the Republic of France, residing at 26 Avenue Carnot, Paris, France, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Processes of Producing Weaving-Diagrams, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in the method of transferring design patterns or figures to cards such as used in Jacquard looms.

The principle of this invention or method isthat embodied in my German Patent No. 73,152,- having for its object to greatly simplify the photographic manipulations or operations by the employment of peculiarly contrived or constructed screens, as will be more fully hereinafter described, and pointed out by the claim. In the elucidation of these improvements I employ, as in my said Germanpatent, the 8-satin pattern and its derived patterns, together with the two glass plates or positives, duplicates of a suitably-ruled paper sheet, and the S-satin pattern configurated sheet or card, respectively.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represented a paper sheet ruled into a multiplicity of squares. Fig. 2 represents a like sheet with a series of 8-satin points pattern outlined thereon. Fig. 3represents a superposed projection or negative of the conjoint representation of the sheets disclosed by Figs. 1 and 2. Figs. 4, 5, 6, and 7 represent various patterns produced by successive or n u merous displacements and photographicprinting operations from the negative disclosed by Fig. 3 in connection with the parts illustrated by Figs. 1 and 2. Figs. 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, and 14 represent a series of views of a cube or quadrangular figure embodying my invention; and Fig. 15 is a view of a screen, with films of a sensitized character assembled therewith, as employed in carrying out my invention, as will be more fully disclosed later on.

My improvements are based upon the following principles.

In considering the various patterns produced or derived from the same ground-patterns obtainable in accordance with the aboveoutlined procedureinvolving the parallel dis placement of dots or points upon a suitably-ruled card or ground, together with shecessive photographic-printing operations or steps, it will be noted that such displacement is always effected in the same direction and that the patterns involving the greatestnumber of displacements and printing operations contain all the points of the preceding patterns. In other words, pattern 13 contains all the points of pattern B, pattern B all the points of pattern B pattern B all the points of pattern B and pattern 13 all the points of patterns B, B B and B Having selected a groundpattern for a given card, all variations in the arrangement of the figures on the card dependent upon such ground-pattern are, as aforesaid, obtained by parallel displacement of the points of the card forming said ground-pattern.

Let it be supposed that in order to obtain the various light effects involved in a given design or pattern it is required to produce, say, 8 satin, as exemplified in Fig. 3, and the various patterns produced or derived therefrom, as in Figs. 4, 5, 6, and 7, I proceed as follows: Referring to the drawings, I suitably fix on a plate of glass (not shown) a sheet of paperA, ruled in squares. (See Fig. l.) Over this is applied a sheet of unruled paper B, secured in place at its edges. By holding up this arrangement in the light, so as to be properly viewed, the ruled squares of the intermediate sheet A can be seen and the points of the 8-satin pattern B, Fig. 3, be located. If the plain or unruled sheet B be then viewed by reflection, it will appear as shown in Fig. 2. A negative photographic im pression of the sheet B, with said points noted thereon, is next taken. Now without shifting either the camera used in making this negative or the glass plate, to which the abovedesc'ribed sheet Bis fixed, the ruled sheet A is uncovered,and of this also a photographic negative is taken. Thus for the purpose of pattern-card preparation the 8-satin pattern is decomposed into two separable negatives, and by superposing projections of the two negatives upon a sensitized plate a patterncard for 8-satin on such plate, Fig. 3, is obtained, as at B. These are all in accordance with the showing in my aforesaid German patent and also generally underlie the patterns B B B and B disclosed by the other Figs. 4, 5, 6, and 7 of the drawings, respectively, as above intimated.

I will now describe the application of the foregoing to the reproduction of a right-lined figure, such as a cube a b c d cfg. (See Figs. 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, and 14.) It will be supposed that for the side a Z) c (l the ground-pattern Bis adopted, for the side Ct d ef the pattern B and for the sidec dfg the pattern B Instead of making separate glass screens for each side, as designed or represented in Figs. 9, 10, and 11, and then conducting for each such side the series of operations of transferring onto the corresponding pattern I proceed as follows: As already remarked, the pat tern B contains all the points of the pattern B and this latter pattern contains all the points of the pattern B. Consequentlyl may print on the whole surface of the cube the ground-pattern l3,and for this purpose I make on a glass plate a screen L of the form shown in Fig. 12, and by printing through this screen said grouml-pattern B the side ab 0 (Z will be transferred onto card with the convenient pattern. The pattern 13 is designed for the side a (Z 6], and it comprises five successive displacement operations of the negative B with relation to the negative A and live photographic-printing operations; but all these printing operations are necessary of the side 0 (1 cf, upon which the pattern fis to be transferred. In the transferrence of the pattern B to said side I take a film-such as i, Fig. 13- which I coat with a suitable coloring medium, so as to screen the figure or side ab 0 (I. Then 1 place the said film before the screen h and print the pattern B on the sides a (Z cf and c (Zfg. It is remarked here that for effecting .this printing operation--transferring to the sides a (Z cfand c clfgonly four such operations instead of five are performed, one less than otherwise would be the case, as the points of pattern B were previously printed thereon, also saving one shifting operation. The operation of completing the production of the impression on the side 0 dfg is efiected by leaving the film 2' before the screen or support h and turning down on said side another film j, screening only the side adef. It will be readily understood that by this operation the side 0 (Zfg only remains uncovered and that as the said side 0 (Z f g had already received six impressions it requires only one impression for the completion of the operations.

Further, let it be supposed that a design comprises the transferring to a card of a ground-pattern and a suitable number of patterns derived from the ground-patterns. All the parts of the design must receive the impression of the ground-pattern. I provide a screen similar to h in the foregoing example of the cube placed on such screen. The peripheral lines of the design are traced, and all the parts outside of these lines are darkened or blackened. By placing this screen before the negative of the ground-pattern the latter will. be printed on the whole surface of the design. The successively-derived patterns which are employed are now arranged or classified according to the increasing nu m ber of the shiftings or displacements and impressions required. It is known that the points of the pattern which require the lowest number of printing operations are also present in the other parts of the drawing or design which require a more considerable number of impressions. This pattern may therefore be transferred upon the design wholly, except upon that part which is intended to receive the impression of the ground-pattern only. It is therefore necessary to provide a film similar to film which will be placed before the screen and which will screen every part receiving the impression of the ground-pattern only. It is then possible whenever necessary to print the points of the first derived pattern without being obliged to again produce the impression of the points of the ground-pattern.

Let it be supposed, for example, that the following pattern requires two shifting operations and the making of two impressions more than the first. not necessary to screen the parts of the design which receive a considerable number of impressions and that it is only required to screen those parts of which there is nofurther need of impressionsviz., those corresponding to the ground-pattern and the first derived pattern. The first film being left fixed along the edges of the screen and turned down, I turn down a second film, screening only the parts of the design corresponding to the first derived pattern, and, finally, instead of mak ing all the impressions correspond to this sec ond derived pattern it is only necessary to make the two impressions which it comprises exceed the preceding pattern, and so on.

The process consists, therefore, in short, of the following operations: first, to provide a screen on which all the parts outside of the design are blackened; second, to secure along the edges of this screen films screening the parts which correspond to the variously-de rived patterns used, these films being arranged according to the increasing number of successive impressions of the patterns; third, to print the ground-pattern through the screen on the whole area of the design and turn down the first film to print the first derived pattern on all the parts which remain uncovered and turn down the second film, the first film being also turned down, the second derived pattern then being printed, and so on.

It is very important to remark that with this process it is not necessary to make for each pattern all the impressions whichitcomprises, but only the impressions which were It is remarked that it is not comprised in the preceding pattern. EX- ample: If the fifth derived pattern comprises ten impressions and the sixth thirteen, the transferring of this sixth pattern Will not require thirteen printing operations, but only three.

Referring to the screens, it is remarked also that when the fifth pattern is printed it is not necessary to screen vs ith the new film the parts which have received the four preceding patterns,because these films are held in place. It is sufiicient for the purpose of making the fifth pattern, to provide a film-screen, the part of the design comprising the fourth pattern. In short, with the process according to the German Patent No. 73,152 it was necessary, first, to make on glass plates for each part of the design a screen, uncovering this part and screening all the other parts; second, to substitute for each operation one of these screens for another; third, to effect for each pattern the complete series of printing operations.

My present invention or process consists, first, of making on aglass plate a single screen uncovering the whole area of the design; second, of providing for each part a film screening one part and uncovering the other part, said operation being more readily performed than that according to the Patent No. 73,152, consisting of bracing the peripheral lines of the part and darkening the outside of these lines, and, furthermore, the films are not disturbed from the moment they are placed upon the screen; third, of making for each pattern a greatly-reduced number of impressions, because for each pattern the operations which have been effected for the preceding one need not be repeated for the subsequent ones.

It is obvious that instead of employing films What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

An improved process of transferring upon cards design-patterns formed of a series of patterns derived from a ground-pattern, consisting of providing a screen upon which is traced the outline or periphery of the design the outer part of this peripheral line being blackened, and said screen being fitted with a series of translucid films upon which are traced and blackened the surfaces corresponding to each derived pattern, said films being arranged according to the increasing number of shifting and printing operations required by the corresponding pattern, said transference being made by printing photographically through said screen the groundpattern on the whole surface of the design, and then by printing successively the impression from each of the derived patterns not contained in the preceding derived pattern after having folded down upon the screen the successive films, said films remaining before the screen until the completion of the operations, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

PIERRE GU-TTON.

Witnesses:

EMILE KLOTZ, CHARLES OTTENHEIMER. 

